I know imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but this is a little too close for comfort.

Sure, Piece of Wonder reminded me of Sakura Taisen in that it melded SRPG elements with love-adventure elements, but it was still its own entity with its own personality.

I hope I'm proven wrong and that Mind 0 is not a complete rip, but first impressions aren't impressing me. I know it's good to take inspiration from your influences, but put your own spin on it, and I'm not seeing enough of that "own spin."

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Sometimes I wonder if there was ever a time a last-place Olympic diver decided before their final dive, "I'm in last place, I have nothing to lose, I might as well have some fun with this" then yell "CANNONBALL!" from the diving board before launching into a cannonball.

Well, it sounds like the MIND thingies can be summoned/unsummoned to change your status rather than just being something that appears whenever you use special abilities, so that's something different...

And if we want to deepen this discussion, the Personas in Revelations: Persona could be compared to the Espers in FF6, the big difference being that you need to make Personas. Personas could also be compared to the stands in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure what with the tarot card references. But, again, it's a case of taking inspiration from the influences and doing your own spin on it rather than outright copying it.

For some of the covers my band does, we're not above listening to other bands' versions of those covers, taking bits and pieces we like, then re-puzzling them to our liking. Like one band may do a really good riff on the verses but another band does a really good riff on the choruses, so we take the parts we like and make them our own.

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Sometimes I wonder if there was ever a time a last-place Olympic diver decided before their final dive, "I'm in last place, I have nothing to lose, I might as well have some fun with this" then yell "CANNONBALL!" from the diving board before launching into a cannonball.

Me too.A lot of the comments on the link talk about how bad the character models are on battle. While it does look like 2nd tier PSP game what got me was the stiff animation and the uninspired sound.I guess we shouldn't get our hopes up, even if it does turn out good it will probably have its rough edges.

Second, yeah, the SFX were terribly muted and muffled.The animations I could deal with because the gameplay looked fast, but then the winning animation looked horrid as well.

Also, I don't dig the inconsistency between some sort of anime-cel shading art then having battles use an artist's drawing as a cut in. It's inconsistent looked (also, wtf was with that face was that main dude pulling the whole time? and why?)

While this could still maybe win people over, I dunno-- with a good story or fun battle system maybe, this keeps coming off as a poor man's Persona clone.